> I sent this message to the php-general list, but haven't gotten any > replies. Looking at the archives for the two lists, I realized that > I'm probably much more likely to get informed responses from this > list than the general list:
Probably a Caucho list would better. php-internals is primarily focused on C PHP implementation (sometimes called mod_php, but can be run well in other modes and other APIs now) of PHP. ... > and enthusiastic about it. The cancellation of PHP 6 combined with > the steady trickle of PHP-related bugs and security vulnerabilities > that have become public over the past few years had made me very > nervous about the future of the platform. Having an open-source ... That is actually quite normal. Bug reports, some of which are security related, and then the release of new point releases are part of the normal heartbeat of software development. When the heart stops beating, the product is dead. And so far as PHP6... a lot of the features that were supposed to be in PHP6 actually ended up in 5.3. So rather than "canceled", "no longer necessary" might be a better description of what happened to PHP6. > Although I've had great results so far in my experiments with > Quercus, I'm curious to hear about other PHP developers' experiences ... Since Quercus is basically the same speed as PHP+APC, but doesn't support all of the extensions that PHP5.3, it has no interest for me. It probably is only useful for those with some Java libraries they have to access from PHP5. But the popular solution to that, these days is use some sort of REST or Thrift interface to the Java library. Plus, Cauch doesn't state which version of PHP5 they are compatible with. PHP5.2? PHP5.3? There are new language features in 5.3. Also, HipHop is getting pretty good too. Since HipHop is faster than PHP+APC, it would be faster than Quercus as well. Drupal works quite well under HipHop, apparently (see http://php.webtutor.pl/en/2011/05/17/drupal-hiphop-for-php-vs-apc-benchmark/). Tom -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
